Cathy Moran, Esq.

In ‘24, we brought you a resource to share with personal injury attorneys as a marketing tool. This week, Atty Moran has done an extraordinary job of crafting a resource that you can share with domestic relations attorneys, again as a marketing tool. The resource will indeed help them but it will help you more in the constant referral department.

No doubt, this is one of Cathy’s best offerings. A must read!!

I’ll give you three guesses . . . and the first two don’t count . . .

More than just a question. Once again Cathy offers new and seasoned attorneys a “gotta keep this one” resource on statutes that refer to numbers of days.

“My very favorite reason for keeping time records is the chance to make the opposition pay for my work. Do good work at no cost to my client.”

“We often first encounter prospective clients when a creditor has posed a threat to take something from them, here and now.” But what about six months from now? A year? What does the stress do over time?

Tired of eating fees at the end of a Chapter 13 when the debtor/client gets a discharge and you get to write off the time you spent in excess of the approved fee? Meet the Bingham Provision!

Some of Attorney Moran’s very best practice tips come right off the corner of her desk - that case which required extra creativity or, perhaps, extra time before discharge. But do debtors have any power over that timing?

“If word of mouth from happy clients is the world’s best advertising for a bankruptcy lawyer, loud complaints from unhappy clients in the internet age are professional poison.”

Health insurance is an allowable means test deduction, even if the debtor doesn’t currently have health insurance.